Vehicle-wheel.



T. E. MURRAY.

VEHICLE WHEEL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28. 1915.

1,212,798, Patented Jan. 16,1917.

UNITED STATES PA ENT omen.

THOMAS E. MURRAY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

- VEHICLE-WHEEL.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented Jan. 16, 1917.

Application filed May as, 1915. Serial No. 30,936. 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS E. MURRAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Vehicle- Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a vehicle wheel of'metal, and to the combination with such a wheel of a brake disk.

The object of the invention is to strengthen the wheel, and it consists in the construction whereby each spoke 1s separately united to the brake disk near the outer lperiphery or flange thereof. In thisway, e spokes are separately supported on the disk and at a distance from the hub, so that the disk acts as a girder or brace to unite the spokes and to distribute the strain among them. r

In the accompanying drawings-Figure 1 is a face view of my wheel, the outer endsof the spokes and the folly belng omitted.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line m, a; of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 1s a similar section, showmg a modification in chick the rib on the brake disk is made integral therewith. Fig. 4 is a portion of the grooved ring I.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A is the hub, having a circumferential flange B. The spokes G are tubular and may radiate from a ring D, which is received uponsaid hub andbea'rs against the flange B. Instead of making the spokes integral with a complete ring D, I may divide said ring radially into sections, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, each spoke then-being integral with one of said sections. Outside of ring D or the sections thereof disposed in juxtaposition, I place a washer E. On the hub on the opposite side with and upon disk F, and provide grooves therein, as described.

I claim: i

1. A vehicle wheel .of metal having a wheel body, comprising a hollow nave and tubular spokes thereoli, a brake disk, and a circular rib upon and concentric with said disk; the saidspokes being each homogeneously united to said rib.

2. A vehicle wheel of metal having a wheel body, comprising a hollow nave and tubular spokes thereon, a brake disk, a circular rib uponvand concentric with said disk, the said spokes being each homegeneously united to said rib, a hub, a flange on said hubinterposed between said disk and said nave, and means for securing together said nave, hub flange and disk.

3. A vehicle wheel of metal, having a hub, spokes, a brake disk, and anannular rib struck up from the outer face of said disk near the circumferential periphery thereof: the said spokes being each homogeneously united to said rib. V I

In testimony whereof I have ailixed my signature in I presence oftwo, Witnesses.

THOMAS E. MURRAY.

lVitnesses J GEn'rnnoE T. Pon'rnn, MAY T. MoGAnnY. 

